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Thoughtful Faith: September 2014
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Wednesday, 17 September 2014. One Day You Will Know How Much You Have Received. The last fews years have been hard. Sometime I might write about it all. But not now. Rather, I just want to share some lines from Henri Nouwen that have become, for me, rather special. This was something I needed to read. Turning the pages, I had that sense of being spoken to. Your willingness to experience your powerlessness already includes the beginn...
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Thoughtful Faith: "Destroy This Temple" - A Sermon
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Thursday, 4 September 2014. Destroy This Temple" - A Sermon. I preached at Abington Avenue United Reformed Church on the 10th of August. (AAURC was the church I attended while living in Northampton.) Have a listen below if you like. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow @martin i smith. One Day You Will Know How Much You Have Received. The 5 Books That Have Most Influenced My Life. Destroy This Temple - A Sermon.
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Thoughtful Faith: September 2013
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Sunday, 8 September 2013. Philosophy and Romantic Love: the Story of an Awkward, Promising Couple. This series is an adaptation of a talk, ‘The Philosophy of Romantic Love’ that I gave at the University of Oxford Socrates Society, May 2013. Yes that’s right, I want to philosophise about romantic love. Let me relay, though, by way of introduction, a story about an exchange I had while I was preparing this material. But love, glorious...
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Thoughtful Faith: June 2014
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Thursday, 5 June 2014. Desiring to Believe and Self-Deception. What happens when you desire to believe something? Or when you are invested in a belief or committed to it? If you were to let that desire, investment or commitment have full reign, would it compromise your rationality? Are the demands of desire for belief and the demands of rationality at odds with one another? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Weekly Apol...
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Thoughtful Faith: The 5 Books That Have Most Influenced My Life
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Sunday, 7 September 2014. The 5 Books That Have Most Influenced My Life. 1 "Straw Dogs" - John Gray. This was the first philosophy book I ever read, around ten years ago. There wasn't much in here I didn't already believe. What it did do was bolster my sense that whether or not there is a God really matters. 2 "Refuting Evolution 2" - Jonathan Sarfati. The most controversial book on my list. During my gap year before university, I b...
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Thoughtful Faith: November 2013
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Friday, 29 November 2013. Charles Taylor on the Desire for Eternity. If we could separate happiness as a thing of the moment from any meaning, then we could enjoy some great moments now, and after pass on to some great moments later; rather as we enjoy good meals. Maybe in the old days, there was another kind of cuisine. We regret mildly its passing. But there is good food now, so let's tuck in. But that's just the problem. The ...
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Thoughtful Faith: April 2014
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Thursday, 24 April 2014. Stuff People Say: "Empathy Explains Morality". Does empathy explain morality? Here is my latest 'Stuff People Say' Chrysolis article addressing that question. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow @martin i smith. Stuff People Say: Empathy Explains Morality. Enter your email address:. Believe all the Bible or None of it? Ancient Near Eastern Thought. The Bible and Culture.
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Thoughtful Faith: February 2014
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Sunday, 23 February 2014. Bennett Helm on the Problem of Both Inventing and Discovering our Values. On the one hand, a person's values are at least in part up to her, and are in this sense subjective: she can have a say in creating or inventing. On the other hand, there seems also to be an element of objectivity in what values a person holds in that she can deliberate about them correctly or incorrectly. Deliberation is a matter...
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Thoughtful Faith: Desiring to Believe and Self-Deception
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Thursday, 5 June 2014. Desiring to Believe and Self-Deception. What happens when you desire to believe something? Or when you are invested in a belief or committed to it? If you were to let that desire, investment or commitment have full reign, would it compromise your rationality? Are the demands of desire for belief and the demands of rationality at odds with one another? I want to ask you ask one question that I think is absolute...
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Thoughtful Faith: May 2014
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Beginner-friendly explorations of Christianity, philosophy, and culture. Tuesday, 20 May 2014. Can Life Have Meaning Without God? Last Sunday (18/05/2014) I gave a talk (with Q&A) at Wantage Baptist Church on the topic, 'Can Life Have Meaning Without God? A good quality audio recording was made and can be found below:. Http:/ www.wantagebaptist.org.uk/sermon-media/meaning-without-god/. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow @martin i smith. Can Life Have Meaning Without God?
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